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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3520549, member: 57463&quot;]We are on the same page. I did not intend to imply that. I understood your regret.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks!&nbsp; I did not know Paul Fussell.&nbsp; I read his Wikipedia biography and I will look for his books.&nbsp; Right now, I am reading <i>Spying for Peace: General Guisan and Swiss Neutrality</i> by John Kimche.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]934730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is most famous for <i>The Little Prince</i>, but wrote many books about his flying in the early days of aviation in the 1920s. A friend of the Lindberghs (perhaps of hers more than his), he returned to France to fly for the Free French and was shot down on July 31, 1944. (The circumstances remain ambiguous on several points.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The face of the note has his name misspelled with the accent aigue over the capital E.&nbsp; A small thing, but embarrassing to the French who are fussy about their language.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]934732[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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